Managing Safety, Security, and Safeguards Risks

Safety, security, safeguards
• Safety - Measures taken to ensure that nuclear material is not used in a way that
causes hurt or injury to persons
• IAEA Safety Glossary: The achievement of proper operating conditions, prevention of accidents
or mitigation of accident consequences, resulting in protection of workers, the public and the
environment from undue radiation hazards.
• Security - Measures taken to ensure that nuclear material and facilities are
protected
• INFCIRC/225, Nuclear Security Recommendations on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
and Nuclear Facilities: “The overall objective of a State’s nuclear security regime is to protect
persons, property, society, and the environment from malicious acts involving nuclear material
and other radioactive material.”
• Safeguards - Measures taken to protect the public by preventing the spread of
nuclear weapons
• Article III.A.5 of the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency, approved Oct 1956:
“…establish and administer safeguards designed to ensure that special fissionable and other
materials, services, equipment, facilities, and information made available by the Agency or at its
request or under its supervision or control are not used in such a way as to further any military
purpose”.
3SDB, University of New Mexico, March 2013
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